The semiconductor industry adage is: Take-overs don’t work. The exception which is always trotted out to prove the rule is the merger of SGS-Ates and Thomson Semiconductor to form ST. So which was the most disastrous takeover in the history of the industry?

Who was the most important semiconductor scientist? In an industry where everyone built on everyone else’s work, this is horribly difficult to judge. Here are some suggestions: Who was the most important semiconductor scientist?Market Research…

You can find a clone of the Uber platform and a clone of the AirBnB platform on GitHub. It's open source, so it can easily be customised to fit local needs.
People care about prices and Uber's commissions are high.
Uber will soon face competition.

Good point DontAgree, but waiting for genius is like waiting for Godot - it may never come along - and it will take genius to deliver quantum computing, if it's ever delivered. Meanwhile, I suppose, we have to plod along with incremental improvements to what we already have.

Well Yes Mark, Linley Gwennap observed in 2012 that desktop speeds were increasing by 10% a year and notebook speeds by 16% a year which is a far cry from the 60% a year increases being achieved before Intel hit the power wall in 2005. And then there's bloatware with the May's Law saying the efficiency of software halves every 18 months eliminating the benefits of Moore's Law.

I keep hearing about this "work smarter not harder" approach, why wouldn't that apply to computers???
Using existing of the shelf parts seems to be a more of a "work harder" approach.
My bet is on quantum computing, but granted that may be a bit further out.

The real need is more powerful computers to keep up with our massively faster brains. I remember back in the early 90s getting a 100MHz PC and being amazed at how fast it was. Now I have a multi core 3GHz notebook and I'm always waiting for it to catch up with me. The only explanation is that my brain is actually following a more aggressive version of Moore's law than Intel's. ;-)